06 Jul '15 04:15>
NASA's New Horizons mission is 8 days, 7 hours, and 34 minutes from its closest approach to Pluto, and not one poindexter on this forum has made a peep about it. So, I shall be that poindexter. 😉
Contact with the probe was momentarily lost on July 4, but was restored within a couple of hours. Some rather nice images and animations are to be found at http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php. I guess the quality of the images surpassed the best the Hubble Telescope could manage sometime around April, give or take a month.
At this point I think we can all rest assured that neither Pluto nor Charon is an abandoned Death Star.
Contact with the probe was momentarily lost on July 4, but was restored within a couple of hours. Some rather nice images and animations are to be found at http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php. I guess the quality of the images surpassed the best the Hubble Telescope could manage sometime around April, give or take a month.
At this point I think we can all rest assured that neither Pluto nor Charon is an abandoned Death Star.